my favorite first-person documentaries
Like everyone else I know, I've spent the past couple weeks talking about You Can See Everything and consuming many of the podcasts, essays, and youtube videos inspired by its success. I've…
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one of these days these New Balance Hierro hiking boots are gonna walk all over you ("you" is the West Highland Way)
No one wants to hear about a middle aged man's foot issues. Including me. So at the top let me just cut to the chase and say that after months of discussion with a podiatrist, with two…
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my first job in LA
I've been thinking recently about the first editing job I got after moving to LA. It was 20 years ago, which is hard to believe. I don't remember how I got the job, but I do remember it was…
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On Time Travelling During A Pandemic, or Airbnb Reviews I Never Wrote
I was going through some old work notebooks today and found this journal entry from 2020 that I completely forgot having written. I'm going to include it in full here, augmented with photos…
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⚽️ World Cup Couples🏆
I've been fully enjoying all of the festivities surrounding this '26 World Cup right here in North America. I live near Koreatown which has everything you could ever need, including a high…
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i miss magazines
For anyone who cares about the decline of print media, The Devil Wears Prada 2 was a disaster movie. I'm not really a fashion magazine person (shocker!) but I appreciate the artistry and…
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Drawn To Animation
I've been fortunate to have worked on and off in animation for the past two decades. I consider myself especially fortunate as someone who A) grew up without a TV in the house and B) has…
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Astoria Favorites
Last week my friend Joe Wengert's show Kevin debuted on Prime Video. It's a very funny animated show about a cat who breaks up with his owners and goes to live at a pet rescue in his…
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In five short weeks Mating Season will be on Netflix. I've been working on the show for over a year, animation takes a long time. It's your classic rom com about forest animals and the…
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Apple Computer is 50 and So Am I
Hip-Hop, Personal Computers, and me- all 50 years old this year. I remember when I was a kid, the conventional wisdom amongst adults was that rap was a destructive force for society at…
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Project Hail Ryan Gosling's T-Shirt Collection
One of my most prized possessions in college was a Terminator 2 shirt that had the iconic logo on the front and "He'll Be Back" on the back (clever). I was wearing it in L.A. several years…
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Hollywood is shrinking. Long live Hollywood.
A couple weeks ago Lynn and I went to see the Hollywood in Miniature exhibit on Hollywood Blvd. The main attraction was a model of Hollywood from the 1930's, created by a woodworker named…
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❤️ & 🏀
This long Valentine's Day weekend was dedicated to two forces that make the world go round, Love & Basketball.
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On being a Philly expat in L.A.
Let me start with a confession, I've never actually lived in Philadelphia. Unless you count the first few months after I was born (a home birth on Green Street, because Wendy Forman is a…
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i left my heart in SF sketchfest
My friend Janet co-founded SF sketchfest in 2002, long before devices would try to autocorrect the word "sketchfest" into "sketchiest" no matter how many times you try to text it to…
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i "built" two websites this week
Show of hands if you've heard the term "vibecoding"? I first heard it on one of my favorite podcasts Hard Fork which covers the dizzying pace of tech advances, but in an accessible and…
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my photography inspiration is a progressive nun
I've only recently become aware of an iconic Angeleno artist, Corita Kent, who was known for her incredible screenprinting but also left behind a massive archive of 18,000 35mm slide film…
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new year, old me 🥯
It's a busy day back at work today, but I just wanted to post this photo of the 2026 bagels at boichik, and announce that I will notbe giving up carbs as a new year's resolution.
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measuring time alongside The Roots
I've been going to Roots concerts for 30 years, a fact that should make me feel old but actually brings me solace. There's something both comforting and inspiring to me about the greatest…
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my faves of 2025
I watched, listened, and read so many things that I really loved this year. This is by no means an exhaustive list but wanted to include some of what i really enjoyed from '25 before we…
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my twenty-five most memorable days of 2025
The less said about the year of our lord 2025 in the macro sense, the better. But I try to focus as much as I can on my own personal, observable world around me. Uh, privleged much…
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December in LA 🎅 🌴☀️
People who live in climates with real winters tend not to appreciate it when I bitch and moan about how hot it is here in December. So instead, I'll just share some of my Ricoh GRiii photos…
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🎸 my favorite concerts this year 🎤
One thing I missed most during the pandemic was the ability to go see live music. One of my favorite things about Los Angeles is the amount of great venues to see music, both outdoor and…
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🚴♂️ to live and bike in LA
As a daily bikerider in car-centric Los Angeles, I've become quite used to being the odd person out. At least most drivers are pretty friendly to cyclists here though (hahaha, jk, can you…
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is Mendocino a real place?
Three hours north of San Francisco is a town that I've visited twice now, but am still not convinced that it actually exists. Jutting out from redwood forests into the rugged Northern…
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📸 photos from my bike ride 🚴♂️
In advance of the rainy weekend, I took a long ride yesterday from the LA River, to Delco Rose hoagies in Highland Park, to Chinatown, then back home. Here are some photo highlights from…
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should there be child actors?
Two recent New Yorker pieces posed a question I'd never thought about, should there be child actors? For me the answer was a fast "yes." Just as I'd give a fast "no" to the question of…
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Joachim Trier made me go to Oslo
I don't think I had seen a Norweigian movie until The Worst Person In The World, part of Joachim Trier's Oslo trilogy. Part of it must have been that I saw it in 2021, when international…
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⚾️ LA puts the World in World Series 🏟️
If there are two things Angelnos love, it's the Dodgers and fireworks. And both were on full display Saturday night in the most epic World Series conclusion I've ever seen. I'm glad I…
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Halloween in Hancock Park
If you're looking for the epicenter of trick-or-treating in Los Angeles, look no further than Hancock Park, a few blocks south from where I live. Last night was my first time diving right…
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Box Office Time Machine
I've always loved going to see movies in the theater, but I don't really care about the horse race of how much they make. There are plenty of movies that I love that were total flops.
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Susan Orlean is my favorite non-fiction writer
Like so many other generations of secular Jews, I've been a fan of The New Yorker for as long as I can remember. Happy 100th bday btw!
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An ode to the Griffith Observatory on the 70th anniversary of Rebel Without A Cause
When it comes to public parks built by abusive drunks who shot their wives in the face, Griffith Park is at the very top of my list. By all accounts and AI summaries I've seen, the absurdly…
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i miss autumn in New England
This weekend I went back to Middletown, Connecticut to visit my cousin for family weekend at Wesleyan, and was treated to a most idyllic taste of autumn. I've always loved fall in the…
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i miss trains: liveblogging my maiden voyage on the next-gen acela
I'm on my way to Connecticut to visit my cousin Finn at Wesleyan (my alma mater) for Family Weekend and decided to splurge on the new next gen acela because I wanted to experience a high…
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Calder Gardens 🎨 vs The Michael Jordan Store 👟
I came to visit my family in Philly today and today's outings included a visit to the new Calder Gardens, dedicated to the greatest hanging mobile sculptor of all time and the new Jordan…
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my photolosophy 📸
I've loved taking photos since I was a kid and my grandfather Harold gave me a tiny "spy camera" from Sharper Image (was going to say RIP, but it looks like it's still around). I'm not sure…
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next stop...Sixers bench
The worse the world gets, the more I devote myself to following basketball. As the NBA opens its '25-'26 season tonight I've been thinking about my lifelong Sixers fandom. For better or…
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On the third Sunday of every month, some model railroad enthusiasts get together and run a model train yard as seriously as if the trains were full sized. The moment Lynn and I arrived, it…
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